Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Supporting Bush is immoral--reason number 6

He lied about lead, and took children poiltical hostage.

In the spring of 2003, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a study that showed--as scientists had long suspected--than even low levels of lead are harmful to children. The CDC estimates that more than 400,000 children in the United States under the age of five have elevated levels of lead in their blood. In 2000, when he was campaigning for the presidency, Bush said he intended to lower lead levels, but once he was the resident, his administration got rid of the lead experts and utilized lead industry "scientists" to help him back out of his promise.